Linux / Unix / VMS equivalencies
So you’re dumped in Brazil (VMS) and all you speak is English (Windows) and Spanish (Linux), how do you get by?
A universal translator, of course: http://bhami.com/rosetta.html
VMS
There’s also a VMS to Unix cheat-sheet: http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/physnet/vms-unix-commands.html
and another: https://www.mpp.mpg.de/~huber/vmsdoc/unix_vms_cmd_xref.html
setting security/ownership in VMS: http://labs.hoffmanlabs.com/node/1806
tiny gotchas that you might not expect:
- case insensitive
- no
- VMS has no set mount points, so you have to explicitly state which disk is being referenced in a command:
$ create/directory [.tmp] $ copy dsa0: [.tmp]x.tmp $ copy dsa0: [.tmp]y.tmp $ copy dsa0: [.tmp]z.tmp
This creates a directory, .tmp, and three files inside it, x.tmp, y.tmp, z.tmp.
AIX
AIX Cheat-sheet: http://bigcalm.tripod.com/aix/handycommands.htm
AIX Cheat-sheet: http://www.tablespace.net/quicksheet/aix-quicksheet.pdf [PDF]
AIX Cheat-sheet: http://www.vmexplore.com/aix-commands-cheat-sheet/
AIX documentation: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/pseries/v5r3/index.jsp
AIX Admin’s blog, full of AIX tips and tricks: http://nixys.fr/blog/?tag=aix (I haven’t used it but it’s the type of quick and to-the-point howto that I find most useful.)
a text file cheat-sheet — quick and dirty, no-nonsense: http://www.pimpworks.org/ibm/aix.txt
SOLARIS
The biggest caveat when going to Solaris from Linux is that a lot of the tools you expect are missing (ie, not installed by default) or different (ie, you’re expecting GNU versions). The easiest way to deal is to install the gnu tools and set them in your path. That said, Solaris 10 is less of a PITA than older versions (9, 8….or heaven forfend: SunOS).
Here is a fast and dirty “why doesn’t this work / how do I do this?” for Solaris: http://sysunconfig.net/unixtips/solaris.html
IBM redbooks, learn it, love it: http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/pdfs/sg247186.pdf [PDF]
Lesser Known Solaris Features: http://www.c0t0d0s0.org/pages/lksfbook.html